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Rajasthan Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Gehlot tries to distance self from 'parallel meeting'
Congress observers for Rajasthan on Tuesday recommended disciplinary action against three party leaders, including two ministers, for the crisis in the state, but did not seek any action against chief minister Ashok Gehlot. The three Gehlot loyalists against whom action has been recommended are Cabinet Minister Shanti Dhariwal, Minister and Congress Chief Whip in the Assembly Mahesh Joshi, and MLA Dharmendra Rathore. Stay with TOI for live updates --Read Less
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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday distanced himself from the alleged "parallel meeting" at cabinet colleague Shanti Dhariwal's residence in the run-up to the mass resignations that scuttled Sunday night's CLP meeting, saying that MLAs supposedly loyal to him gathered there without his knowledge and that he never intended to deviate from what the Congress high command wanted him to do.
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About 20 Rajasthan Congress MLAs met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's at his residence here on Tuesday evening, indicating solidarity with the leader amid turmoil in the party's state unit.
The report, however, pointed out that the parallel meeting of MLAs was held with Gehlot's knowledge.
The observers - Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken - had to return from Jaipur without holding the CLP meeting as a large group of MLAs considered loyal to Chief Minister Gehlot refused to join it and put forth certain conditions for the selection of Gehlot's successor.
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Amid an ongoing political crisis in Rajasthan, state minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas alleged on Tuesday that the BJP has again started hatching a conspiracy to topple the Congress government.
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